The sophisticated way would be to detect suspicious activity based on IP, or logon attempts, etc - and then display a captcha on that.
Of course, cruder methods have included adding honeypot fields. It doesn't have to be the email field, just an extra dummy hidden field usually does the trick. On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 12:13 PM, Nahum Wild <[email protected]> wrote: > And I suddenly see way allowing people to login with their twitter/facebook > account is being picked up by so many new sites. > > --nahum > > > On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 11:43, Glen Barnes <[email protected]>wrote: > >> >> >> On Wednesday, 29 June 2011 10:23:25 UTC+12, tim wrote: >>> >>> I have often thought of dynamically naming your fields with guids or >>> something and keeping the field names in flash or in a session >>> variable. This would also prevent double submits. I haven't seen this >>> done anywhere but it seems doable and a simple solution to spam as the >>> spammer has no idea of what the fields are to be called. You can >>> combine this with the above to throw in a couple of bogus fields in >>> there and reject any submission with the bogus fields filled in. >>> >> >> And then 1Password would stop working for people? Good idea in theory but >> it may also stop legitimate tools from using your site. Something to think >> about if any one implements this. >> >> Glen >> >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "WellRailed" group. >> To view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msg/wellrailed/-/bFPzRWy0fLAJ. >> >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> [email protected]. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/wellrailed?hl=en. >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "WellRailed" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/wellrailed?hl=en. > -- Best regards, Y. Thong Kuah http://kuahyeow.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "WellRailed" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/wellrailed?hl=en.
